Praise the Lord, you angels of his, you powerful warriors who carry out his decrees and obey his orders!

and execute the judgment to which their enemies have been sentenced. All his loyal followers will be vindicated. Praise the Lord!

and I saw among the naive – I discerned among the youths – a young man who lacked wisdom.

Speaking recklessly is like the thrusts of a sword, but the words of the wise bring healing.

Instruction from the wise is like a life-giving fountain, to turn a person from deadly snares.

Take a man’s garment when he has given security for a stranger, and when he gives surety for strangers, hold him in pledge.

Like tying a stone in a sling, so is giving honor to a fool.

The Beloved about Her Lover: All night long on my bed I longed for my lover. I longed for him but he never appeared.

They are like lusty, well-fed stallions. Each of them lusts after his neighbor’s wife.

Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must go and hide. You must not let anyone know where you are.”

Why will your soldiers be defeated? They will not stand because I, the Lord, will thrust them down.

It is good to wait patiently for deliverance from the Lord.

When they moved they would go in any of the four directions they faced without turning as they moved.

“‘As for you, profane and wicked prince of Israel, whose day has come, the time of final punishment,

I heard someone speaking to me from the temple, while the man was standing beside me.

From beyond the rivers of Ethiopia, those who pray to me will bring me tribute.

“The Lord who rules over all said, ‘Exercise true judgment and show brotherhood and compassion to each other.

The seed sown on rocky ground is the person who hears the word and immediately receives it with joy.

Then he instructed his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.

So also my heavenly Father will do to you, if each of you does not forgive your brother from your heart.”